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A companion to the history of the Middle East / edited by Youssef M. Choueiri.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to world history.
- Blackwell companions to world history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (623 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. Ltd, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle EastComprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholarsPrimarily focused on the modern and contemporary periodsCovers religious, social, cultural, economic, political and military historyTreats the region as four differentiated political units - Iran, Turkey, Israel and the Arab worldIncludes a section on
- Contents:
- Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri
- The formative period of Islam
- The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting
- The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner
- The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy
- Cultural traditions and social structure
- The °ulamaa: function and status / Zouhair Ghazzal
- Shī°ism / Robert Gleave
- Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh
- Imperial structures and dynastic rule
- Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain
- The Mamluk institution / P.M. Holt
- State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett
- A new Middle Eastern system
- Ottomans and Safavids: states, statecraft, and societies, 1500-1800 / Metin Kunt
- Urban life and Middle Eastern cities: the traditional Arab city / André Raymond (translated James McDougall)
- The Middle East and the new world order
- A different balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
- Colonialism, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran / Peter Sluglett
- Independence and nation building
- Zionism and the Palestine question / Emma C. Murphy
- Nationalisms in the Middle East: the case of Pan-Arabism / Youssef M. Choueiri
- Turkish and Iranian nationalisms / Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari
- Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch
- Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield
- Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden
- Modern issues and contemporary challenges
- Islamic urbanism, urbanites, and the Middle Eastern city / Michael E. Bonine
- Oil and development / Paul Stevens
- Modernizing women in the Middle East / Valentine M. Moghadam
- Politics and religion / Beverley Milton-Edwards
- Ethno-national minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians / Lise Storm
- Civil society in the Middle East / Tim Niblock
- The states-system in the Middle East: origins, developments, and prospects / Simon Bromley.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-581) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610285891
- 9781280285899
- 1280285893
- 9781780341583
- 178034158X
- 9781405165778
- 1405165774
- 9780470996423
- 0470996420
- 9781405152044
- 1405152044
- OCLC:
- 437159287
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